WALK AND TALK ALBERT PARK

GRACIOUS GARDENS AND RE-IMAGINED GREEN SPACES IN ALBERT PARK: ST VINCENT GARDENS AND GASWORKS ART PARK

Following our interesting visit to Garden City in 2024, you are invited to join us to start 2025 with a 3-4 kms walk and talk around Albert Park. 

We will start in the 1850s  Hodgkinson -  designed   St Vincent Gardens, a large, landscaped square with significant specimen plantings modelled on similar Georgian London spaces. Developed for Melbourne's aspiring middle classes following the gold rush boom, it is surrounded by elegant terrace houses.  We will then walk to the nearby Gas Works Art Park to explore a cleverly imagined green community space and arts precinct that began life as a gasworks foundry in 1871. Here we will discover plants indigenous to Melbourne's coast line and used by our first nations people. We will also explore how a gritty industrial area has been turned into a vibrant arts hub and park before returning to St Vincent Gardens.

LEADER: Robyn Ryan, AGHS member and historian

DATE: Thursday, February 27, 2025

TIME: 4pm -  6pm for 3-4 km walk followed by BYO picnic.

MEETING POINT: Corner of Ferras St and St Vincent Place North, Albert Park

GETTING THERE: Free parking around perimeter of the two sections of St Vincent Gardens.

                                    Tram No 1 or light rail 96 nearby

BRING:Walking shoes and picnic gear

COST: Free to members and friends

ENQUIRIES:  Sue Foran  0400159 079  or  Wendy Dwyer 0408 340 967